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Overview

Tas D. van Ommen is affiliated with the Australian Antarctic Division in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Environmental Science.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Climate variability and models

Their publications span a range of venues with frequent contributions in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Climate of the Past
  • Journal of Glaciology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Communications Earth & Environment

Frequent co-authors working alongside van Ommen include:

  • Jason L. Roberts
  • Lenneke M. Jong
  • Mark A. J. Curran
  • Jamin S. Greenbaum
  • Andrew D. Moy

Selected recent papers highlight the scope of their research:

  • "Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antarctica," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Pacific decadal variability over the last 2000 years and implications for climatic risk," 2022, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal," 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • "Sunlight-driven nitrate loss records Antarctic surface mass balance," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Stratigraphic templates for ice core records of the past 1.5 Myr," 2022, Climate of the Past

Within their subfields of study, van Ommen's work covers Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

Best Publications

  • Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

    Moinuddin Ahmed;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Asfawossen Asrat;Hemant P. Borgaonkar

  • Deep glacial troughs and stabilizing ridges unveiled beneath the margins of the Antarctic ice sheet

    M. Morlighem;Eric Rignot;Tobias Binder;Donald Blankenship

  • Law Dome CO2, CH4 and N2O ice core records extended to 2000 years BP

    C. MacFarling Meure;D. Etheridge;C. Trudinger;P. Steele

  • Historically unprecedented global glacier decline in the early 21st century

    A. P. Ahlström;B. Anderson;M. Arenillas;S. Bajracharya

  • High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects:

    P.D. Jones;K.R. Briffa;T.J. Osborn;J.M. Lough

  • Ice Core Evidence for Antarctic Sea Ice Decline Since the 1950s

    Mark A. J. Curran;Tas D. van Ommen;Vin I. Morgan;Katrina L. Phillips

  • State of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate system

    Paul Andrew Mayewski;M. P. Meredith;C. P. Summerhayes;J. Turner

  • Unexpected changes to the global methane budget over the past 2000 years.

    D. F. Ferretti;J. B. Miller;J. W. C. White;D. M. Etheridge

  • A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Michael J Bentley;Colm Ó Cofaigh;John B Anderson;Howard Conway

  • Inter-hemispheric temperature variability over the past millennium

    Raphael Neukom;Raphael Neukom;Joelle Gergis;David J. Karoly;Heinz Wanner

  • Trends and seasonal cycles in the isotopic composition of nitrous oxide since 1940

    S. Park;S. Park;P. Croteau;K. A. Boering;D. M. Etheridge

  • Insignificant Change in Antarctic Snowfall Since the International Geophysical Year

    Andrew J. Monaghan;David H. Bromwich;Ryan L. Fogt;Sheng Hung Wang

  • Where to find 1.5 million yr old ice for the IPICS "Oldest-Ice" ice core

    H. Fischer;J. Severinghaus;E. Brook;E. Wolff;E. Wolff

  • Ocean access to a cavity beneath Totten Glacier in East Antarctica

    J. S. Greenbaum;Donald D Blankenship;Duncan A Young;Thomas G Richter

  • Antarctic climate variability on regional and continental scales over the last 2000 years

    Barbara Stenni;Mark A. J. Curran;Mark A. J. Curran;Nerilie J. Abram;Anais Orsi

  • A dynamic early East Antarctic Ice Sheet suggested by ice-covered fjord landscapes

    Duncan A. Young;Andrew P. Wright;Jason L. Roberts;Jason L. Roberts;Roland C. Warner;Roland C. Warner

  • Retreat history of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Andrew N. Mackintosh;Elie Verleyen;Philip E. O'Brien;Duanne A. White

  • An independently dated 2000-yr volcanic record from Law Dome, East Antarctica, including a new perspective on the dating of the 1450s CE eruption of Kuwae, Vanuatu

    C. T. Plummer;C. T. Plummer;M. A. J. Curran;M. A. J. Curran;T D. van Ommen;T D. van Ommen;S. O. Rasmussen

  • The last deglaciation: timing the bipolar seesaw

    J.B. Pedro;J.B. Pedro;T.D. van Ommen;T.D. van Ommen;S.O. Rasmussen;V.I. Morgan;V.I. Morgan

  • Paleoclimate Data–Model Comparison and the Role of Climate Forcings over the Past 1500 Years*

    Steven John Phipps;Helen Victoria McGregor;Joelle Gergis;Ailie Jane Eyre Gallant

  • Antarctic temperatures over the past two centuries from ice cores

    David P. Schneider;Eric J. Steig;Tas D. van Ommen;Daniel A. Dixon

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark A. J. Curran
Mark A. J. Curran University of Tasmania
Vin Morgan
Vin Morgan University of Tasmania
Jason L. Roberts
Jason L. Roberts Australian Antarctic Division
Donald D. Blankenship
Donald D. Blankenship The University of Texas at Austin
Paul Andrew Mayewski
Paul Andrew Mayewski University of Maine
Nicholas R. Golledge
Nicholas R. Golledge Victoria University of Wellington
David Etheridge
David Etheridge Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Eric J. Steig
Eric J. Steig University of Washington
Ian D. Goodwin
Ian D. Goodwin Macquarie University
Nancy A. N. Bertler
Nancy A. N. Bertler Victoria University of Wellington

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